There are often sixteen arhats, eighteen arhats and five hundred arhats in Mahayana Buddhist temples in China.
Luohan people are pure in body and mind, and their ignorance troubles are over (killing thieves). I escaped from life and death, and I entered nirvana (no life). Be respected and supported by everyone. Before the end of his life, he still lived in a world with few desires, forbidding morality, purity and educating people with his life.
Because there is no basis for classical ceremonies, Luohan statues will be created and expressed by artists of all ages. Usually, the image of a monk with a shaved head and a robe is simple, clean, informal and free-willed, which embodies the noble virtues of practicing Sanskrit, wisdom and tranquility in reality.
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According to folk Buddhist records, there were only sixteen arhats at that time, all of whom were enlightened disciples of Sakyamuni Buddha, and later developed into eighteen arhats on the basis of sixteen arhats. There are different opinions about the two arhats of the later eighteen arhats.
One is Master Xuan Zang and Qing You, who wrote "Fa Zhu Ji". Zhang Xuan, a monk painter in the former Shu Dynasty, and Guan Xiu, a monk painter in the Five Dynasties, painted eighteen arhats respectively. In the Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo wrote poems to praise the above paintings. It is considered that the 17th arhat among the eighteen arhats is the author of "Celebrating Friends and Respecting People", that is, the book of Fazhu, and the 18th arhat is "Bintouluo Zunren" (another name for the first arhat. )
Said it was Gaia and the cloth bag monk. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty decided that 17 Lohan was the dragon-descending Lohan (the Lord of Jia Ye) and 18 Lohan was the Lohan of Khufu (the Lord of Maitreya). Most of the 18 arhats in folk arts and crafts are the arhats who have fallen dragons and crouched tigers.